Movies like Highway 61

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Highway 61 (1991)
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Highway 61 (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way. Don McKellar and Valerie Buhagiar team up as a barber and a smuggler running a corpse on the roof of a '63 Ford Galaxy 500 on a one-car funeral procession stretching from Northern Ontario to New Orleans on the only continuous highway between Canada an the U.S. What unfolds is a white trash odyssey filled with strange roadside distractions played eagerly by the likes of Peter Breck, Jello Biafra and Art Bergmann. If you've seen the bookends of this trilogy, Hard Core Logo and Roadkill, then you know that in any Bruce McDonald film, the asphalt has a speaking part.
Style: road movie, cult classic, independent film, offbeat, humorous, talky, dark, dark comedy, semi serious, light ...
Plot: rock and roll, on the road, road trip, dark humor, friendship, chase, small town, car, drug dealing, devil, motorcycle gang, jazz, drug dealer, satanist, heroin, blues, groupie, corpse, friends, misfit, society, social misfits, nothing goes right, partner, disorder ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 70s
Place: canada, new orleans, usa, america, california, tokyo, new jersey
Keyword: americana, partners

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and offbeat films with plots about friends, disorder, partner, buddies, misfit, friendship and nothing goes right mostly in Comedy, Music and Drama genres. Some movies like Highway 61: Roadkill (1989), Roadie (1980), Roadside Prophets (1992), Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989), Fubar (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Roadkill (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Ramona works in a concert agency and is sent after the rock band 'Children of Paradise' who have disappeared. Since she can't drive, she has to take the train and bus and eventually hitchhike. On her way through the Canadian back ...
Style: black and white, independent film, road movie, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: punk, road trip, rock band, filmmaker, female protagonist, violence, travel, misfit, buddies, obsessive quest, chases and races, music band ...
Time: 18th century
Place: canada
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Roadie (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A young Texas good ol' boy has a knack with electronic equipment, and that talent gets him a job as a roadie with a raucous traveling rock-and-roll show.
Style: offbeat, funny, cult classic, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: rock and roll, rock, club, hicksploitation, dancing, car, rock music, on the road, ambition, fall in love, obsessive quest, artists and showbiz ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: austin texas, texas
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Roadside Prophets (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Sid and Nancy screenplay author Abbe Wool makes her directorial debut with this tale of a factory worker name Joe (X front man John Doe) who hits the road on his Harley to scatter the ashes of a co-worker. Joined by wannabe biker Sam (Adam Horovitz ...
Style: road movie, light, talky, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: motorcycle, desert, on the road, biker, hotel, road trip, life philosophy, friendship, bike, obsession, journey, loner ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: nevada, usa, seattle, los angeles, las vegas
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Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 79 min.
Story: The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Finnish musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band.
Style: road movie, humorous, funny, satirical, light ...
Plot: music, road trip, rock and roll, music business, music band, career, family relations, artists and showbiz, siblings relations, dream, dancing, rock band ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: usa, mexico, russia, finland, new orleans ...
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Fubar (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Terry and Dean are lifelong friends who have grown-up together: shotgunning their first beers, forming their first garage band, and growing the great Canadian mullet known as "hockey hair". Now the lives of these Alberta everymen are ...
Style: mockumentary, humorous, ironic, funny, witty ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: friendship, musician's life, nothing goes right, music band, introspection, ambition, buddies, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, found footage, beer, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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American Beer (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Four young Canadian men are out on a road trip when their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. They each go their own way in search of a needed alternator, but along the way, each one experiences an unexpectedly memorable adventure...
Style: independent film, slapstick, humorous, offbeat, realistic ...
Plot: beer, partner, misfit, buddies, misfit partners, obsessive quest, nothing goes right, adolescence vs adulthood, on the road, heist, disorder, friends ...
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Rubin and Ed (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Reclusive Rubin Farr teams up with vocal but unsuccessful multi-level salesman Ed Tuttle on a quest to bury Rubin's dead cat in the "perfect spot." Their trip takes them across Utah's desert where they have run-ins with Ed'd ...
Style: dark comedy, road movie, cult classic, psychotronic, surreal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: road trip, desert, on the road, loner, surrealism, quirky character, name calling, travel, cat, salesman, friendship, weirdo ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: utah, california, usa
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Tapeheads (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story of Ivan and Josh, two dim witted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of work, with no job prospects, they form a music video production company. They soon learn the in's and out's of the business in LA and with some ...
Style: humorous, satirical, light, semi serious, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: music, blackmail, disorder, music band, ambition, showbiz, artists and showbiz, buddies, media, partner, rock and roll, punk ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict parents and hits the road, eventually meeting kindred spirit Pedro de Pacas. While the drug-ingesting duo is soon arrested for possession of marijuana, Anthony ...
Style: funny, grindhouse, cult classic, laugh out loud, psychedelic ...
Plot: stoner, marijuana, weed, drug, rock and roll, buddy, road trip, satire, hippie, exploitation, chase, buddies ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1977
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Pretty Bird (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: disorder, friendship, partner, unemployment, buddies, dark humor, desire for fame, friends, aviation, unfulfillment, nasa, obsessive quest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Trailer Park Boys: The Movie (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Set in a separate storyline not related to the "Trailer Park Boys" Television show, but with the same lovable characters. The boys get arrested for robbing an ATM machine and spend 18 months in jail. When the get out, they decide to pull ...
Style: mockumentary, stylized, semi serious, humorous, witty ...
Plot: buddies, dark humor, trailer park, misfit, life is a bitch, criminal heroes, social misfits, society, disorder, robbery, marijuana, drug dealing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, nova scotia, nova scotia, canada
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Genre: Comedy, Music
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Duration: 92 min.
Story: Electric Apricot is a spoof of jam bands centered around the band, Electric Apricot, in the style of "This Is Spinal Tap"
Style: realistic, cynical, humorous, mockumentary, semi serious ...
Plot: partner, music band, performer's life, lifestyle, music, friends, disorder, filmmaking, on the road, rock, artists and showbiz, musician's life ...
Time: 21st century
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22%
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The Bros. (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Wannabe "gangsta-rappers" resort to a crime spree in order to come up up with ten thousand dollars in order to finance a studio recording session.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, independent film, offbeat ...
Plot: desire for fame, unlikely criminals, lifestyle, rise to the top, juvenile delinquency, musician's life, drug dealing, gangster, partner, disorder, society, criminal heroes ...
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The Trailer Park Boys Xmas Special (2004)
Genre: Comedy
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Duration: 57 min.
Story: In this holiday prequel, it’s 1997 and Sunnyvale Trailer Park is getting ready for the holiday season. Julian’s got a great idea to make money this Christmas, Ricky gets confused between God and Santa, and Bubbles tries to get the Boys together ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, mockumentary, light, not serious ...
Plot: christmas, nothing goes right, life is a bitch, friends, buddies, misfit, petty criminal, trailer park boys, holiday, underground, xmas, disorder ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of friends go on a journey to a secret marijuana forest in Kansas.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, road movie, realistic ...
Plot: stoner, weed, road trip, marijuana, goofy hero, nothing goes right, buddies, farce, disorder, drug abuse, screwball, drug ...
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The Dark Backward (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
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Style: dark comedy, cult classic, horror comedy, independent film, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
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Time: year 1991, 90s
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Killer Bud (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After losing another job, two idiots embark on an adventure of mythic proportion: to acquire "Feed Bags," the discontinued entire-meal-in-a-bag, to impress their two equally dim-witted dates. When the only convenience store in town that ...
Style: not serious, humorous, feel good, light, entertaining ...
Plot: best friend, nothing goes right, buddies, partner, disorder, friends, misfit, society, social misfits, drug dealing, unemployment, heist ...
Place: usa
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21%
Heaven Before I Die (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jacob's feet are so turned out that he walks like Charlie Chaplin. He is different because of that and decides to emigrate from Palestine to Canada, where "everyone is equal". There everybody treats him kindly, and a thief ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, offbeat, humorous
Plot: immigrant, society, love and romance, misfit, criminal heroes, self discovery, friends, disability, friendship, oracle, heist, farce
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Duration: 112 min.
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Style: dark comedy, road movie, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 90s
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20%
The Living Wake (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: “The Living Wake” is a dark comedy set in a timeless storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew, has one day to live. He has enlisted his best and only friend, Mills Joquin, to take him around on a bicycle powered ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, sentimental ...
Plot: nothing goes right, friends, odd couple, lifestyle, dark humor, partner, performer's life, misfit partners, hopes, daydreamer, social relations, last wish ...
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Country: UK, Czech Republic
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Story: Colin Frampton is an Englishman who never stops worrying, not even on holiday in Prague. When Colin's wife is accidentally squashed by a statue, he decides that he can't face life without her. So Colin bribes Pavel to help him die. An ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot: dark humor, partner, gangster, criminal heroes, misfit, hitman, friendship, disorder, buddies, death wish, death in the family, love and romance ...
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Caesar is having a hard time dividing his time between his band and his rich girlfriend, Buffer. Buffer's dad doesn't like Ceasar for her. He called in Caesar to make a bet. If Caesar gets to make a hundred thousand dollars within six ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, independent film ...
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Genre: Comedy
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Duration: 90 min.
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Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Plot: rivalry, contests and competitions, friendship, on the road, ambition, nothing goes right, farce, partner, save the day, journey, debt, contest ...
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20%
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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two drag-queens and a transsexual contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a resort town in the remote Australian desert. They head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla. En route, it is discovered that the woman ...
Style: road movie, feel good, melancholic, captivating, cult classic ...
Audience: chick flick
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Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1994
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Drawing Flies (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Donner and his roomates are out of money and about to get evicted from their home. So as a diversion from their situation, he invites them to his father's cabin in the Canadian wilderness. They all go along, but soon learn that there's no ...
Style: black and white, cult classic, independent film, talky, biting ...
Plot: sasquatch, bigfoot, self discovery, silly humor, wilderness, twentysomething life, friends, obsessive quest, partner, welfare, lost in the woods, journey ...
Time: 90s
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20%
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Sherman's Way (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An eccentric Olympic has-been who prefers leisure to work, finds himself stuck with a rigid pre-law Yale student with no time for wasting time. Between skinny-dipping and stealing cars, this odd-couple learn from each other that balance is the key ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, touching ...
Plot: disorder, couples, friends, unlikely couple, introspection, lifestyle, nothing goes right, odd couple, youth, small town, eccentric family, partner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Lost in America (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling ...
Style: road movie, humorous, witty, talky, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: road trip, on the road, self discovery, motor home, fired from the job, marriage, couples, fish out of water, nothing goes right, cross country trip, married couple, promotion ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1985
Place: las vegas, arizona, nevada, new york, los angeles
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20%
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Still Smokin (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Cheech & Chong are invited to a celebrity party in Amsterdam. When they get there, however, it turns out that the guy who invited them has taken off with all the money. They are actually expecting Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton, so our ...
Style: not serious, realistic, witty, humorous, funny ...
Audience: teens
Plot: weed, stoner, drug, anti hero, mistaken identity, nothing goes right, misfit, goofy hero, disorder, fish out of water, drug abuse, partner ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: amsterdam, europe, netherlands, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Sharp as Marbles (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Albert isn't the brightest bulb on the block. But that's okay, he's got his best friends, George and Ernie to help him out. Only problem, they're just as dumb as he is.
Style: humorous, not serious, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friends, misfit, youth, buddies, friendship, nothing goes right, odd couple, goofy hero, silly humor, fish out of water, escapades, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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High Strung (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Thane Furrows, an extremely cynical but unintentionally hilarious children's book writer, wakes up one morning, and, since pretty much everyone and everything annoys him, begins another day of complaining to himself. However, the day proves to ...
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: death, disorder, dark humor, buddies, confined, nothing goes right, losing-it hero, writers, uninvited guest, friends, isolation, breaking the fourth wall ...
Time: 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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